Migration to and from Welfare States : : Lived Experiences of the Welfare-Migration Nexus in a Globalised World.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Ryndyk, Oleksandr.
• TeilnehmendeR: Suter, Brigitte.; Odden, Gunhild.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)

Table of Contents

Migration to and from Welfare States -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1: Welfare and Mobility: Migrants' Experiences of Social Welfare Protection in Transnational and Translocal Spaces -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Welfare and Migration as a Research Field -- 1.3 Moving Beyond the Nation-State-Centred Approach -- 1.3.1 Key Issues -- 1.3.2 Key Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives -- 1.3.3 Study Contexts -- 1.4 Content of the Book -- 1.5 Instead of a Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: The Mobility of the Elderly and Family-Based Care: A Case Study of Chinese Migrant (Grand)Parents -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Chinese Family-Based Care Regime in the Context of Social Transformations -- 2.3 Research Context and Methods -- 2.4 The Decision to Move -- 2.4.1 To Move Permanently: Fear of Becoming the 'Empty-Nest' Elderly -- 2.4.2 Grandparents 'on Duty': Temporary Migration and a Choice of No-Choice -- 2.5 The Return-or-Stay Dilemma -- 2.5.1 Grandparents as an Important Care (Re)Source for the Nuclear Family -- 2.5.2 Balancing Care Needs and Resources Within the Family -- 2.5.3 Dependency on Filial Care and Fear of Being a Burden -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Keeping It in the Family: Rotating Chains in Women's Transnational Care Work Between Italy and Ukraine -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Main Features of Ukrainian and Italian Welfare States in the Past Decades -- 3.3 The Rotational Care System -- 3.4 Data and Methods -- 3.5 Ambivalence and Contradiction in the Gender Contract in Post-Soviet Ukraine -- 3.6 Responsibilities in a Migrant Family: All the Way around -- 3.7 New Forms of Family Mobility Capital -- 3.8 Conclusions -- References.

Chapter 4: From Familial Pressure to Seeking One's Fortune: Chinese International Students' Search for Geographical and Social Mobility as a Response to Societal and Familial Pressures -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Post-1980s Generation or bālínghòu -- 4.3 Sen's Development as Freedom -- 4.4 Method and Participants -- 4.5 Embodying Modernity Through Global Capital -- 4.5.1 Reasons for Leaving China -- 4.5.2 Why IUN? -- 4.5.3 The Opening Up of Life Trajectories -- 4.5.4 Parental Pressures -- 4.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: 'He Has a Better Chance Here, So We Stay'. Children's Education and Parental Migration Decisions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Welfare and Migration -- 5.3 School as an Element of the Welfare State -- 5.4 School and Life Chances -- 5.5 Methodology -- 5.6 Migrant Strategies in the Context of the Welfare State -- 5.6.1 Norwegian School in the Eyes of Polish Parents -- 5.6.2 Increasing Life Chances - Parents' Supplementary Strategies -- 5.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Settling for Welfare? Shifting Access to Welfare, Migration and Settlement Aspirations of Filipina Single Mothers in Japan -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Immigration and Welfare in Japan -- 6.3 Theoretical Framework -- 6.4 Research Methods and Data -- 6.5 Filipina Mothers' Transnational Social Protection -- 6.5.1 Marriage to Divorce -- 6.5.2 From a Nuclear to a Single-Parent Family -- 6.5.3 From Part-Time to Full-Time Employment and Home-Ownership -- 6.6 To Settle or to Return? The Impact of Social Welfare on Filipinas' Migration and Settlement Aspirations -- 6.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7: Labour Mobility from Eastern European Welfare States: Zooming in on Romania and Slovakia -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Family-Related Policies in and Care Mobility from Romania and Slovakia -- 7.3 Concepts and Theoretical Perspectives -- 7.4 Methods and Data.

7.5 The Needs of Care Workers' Families and Strategies Employed to Address Them -- 7.6 Care Needs as a Determinant of Mobility: The Tipping Point -- 7.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8: Welfare Considerations Underpinning Healthcare Workers' Decision About Migration: The Case of Slovenia -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Migration of Healthcare Workers -- 8.3 The Slovenian Case -- 8.4 Spectrum of Motivations for Migrating -- 8.4.1 Subjective Wellbeing -- 8.4.2 Social Welfare Benefits and Services -- 8.4.3 Patients' Welfare -- 8.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9: When the Expatriate Wife Returns Home: Swedish Women Navigating National Welfare Politics and Ideals of Gender Equality in Expatriate Family Migration -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 From Gender Equality to Homemaker and Back Again -- 9.3 Gender and Migration in the Swedish Pension System -- 9.4 Fieldwork in an All-Women's Network -- 9.5 The Transnationalisation of Social Inequality -- 9.6 Leaving Working Life - And Losing Swedish National Identity? -- 9.7 To Be a Homemaker: On Subordination and Dependency -- 9.8 'What Do you Do all Day Long?' -- 9.9 Back to the Future in the Swedish Welfare State -- 9.10 Family-Oriented Privileges and Gendered Dependency -- 9.11 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10: (Im)mobility Patterns among Polish Unemployed Migrants in Iceland Navigating Different Welfare Regimes -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Intra-European Labour Mobility -- 10.3 Methods -- 10.4 The Financial Crisis, Unemployment and (Im)Mobility Patterns Among Polish Migrants in Iceland -- 10.5 Mobile Workers Facing the National Logic of Welfare Regimes -- 10.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Puzzling Social Protection across Several Countries: Opportunistic Strategy or Risky Compensation? -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Managing an Enlarged Transnational Social-Protection Space.

11.3 Research Methods -- 11.4 Balancing TSP Between Here, There and Beyond -- 11.4.1 Juan's Family -- 11.4.2 Ramón's Family -- 11.5 The (Im)Mobility of People and Provisions in a TSP Space -- 11.5.1 Differential Circulatory Capabilities -- 11.5.2 The Diffuse Circulation of Support as a Compensatory Adaptation to Constraining Environments -- 11.5.3 Low Socio-Economic-Status Families: Thick Reciprocity and (Inter-)Dependence -- 11.5.4 High Socio-Economic-Status Families: Thin Reciprocity and Autonomy -- 11.6 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12: Beloved Land, Beloved Family: The Role of Welfare in Timorese Migration to England -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Theoretical Lens: Culturally Situated Welfare-Resource Environments -- 12.3 The Case: Timorese Migration to England -- 12.4 Data and Methods -- 12.5 The Role of Labour Markets in Welfare Provision -- 12.5.1 (Un)employment and Labour-Market Conditions in Timor-Leste -- 12.5.2 Employment and Labour-Market Conditions in England -- 12.6 State-Based Welfare Provision -- 12.6.1 State Responsibility, Distrust, Dependency and Education in Timor-Leste -- 12.6.2 Welfare Systems in England: Social Security, Taxation, Healthcare, Law and Education -- 12.7 Family-Based Welfare Provision -- 12.7.1 The Role of Family: Migration Determinants, Remittances and Return -- 12.7.2 Interdependence and Independence in Culturally Embedded Welfare Provision -- 12.8 In Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Securing Old-Age Pensions Across Borders: Sudanese Transnational Families Across the Netherlands, the UK and Sudan -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Mobile Populations in Immobile Welfare Systems -- 13.2.1 Growing Old Across Borders -- 13.2.2 Aging in Sudan -- 13.3 Data and Methods -- 13.4 Catering for Old-Age Needs Across Borders and Generations -- 13.4.1 Providing for One's Parents Pension.

13.4.2 Arranging One's Own Pension -- 13.5 Conclusions -- References.